Cecil Beaton

Celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee at the National Portrait Gallery in London

Heidi Kim | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Diamond Jubilee, Andy Warhol, Cecil Beaton, National Portrait Gallery, Annigoni, Lucien Freud, Queen Elizabeth II, Arts News
Heidi Kim

From candid photographs of the young queen laughing, holding her own umbrella and having a cup of tea, to more radical silkscreens by Warhol, we notice the departure from a traditional, elevated image to that of one more ordinary and down-to-earth.

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Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton

Franca Sozzani | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Cecil Beaton, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen-Elizabeth-Ii-Fashion, Queen Elizabeth II Exhibit, Queen Elizabeth II Portraits, Queen Elizabeth II Style, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth Cecil Beaton, Queen Elizabeth II Photographs, Queen-Elizabeth-Cecil-Beaton, Style News
Franca Sozzani

It's a must-see exhibition for its historical significance, for the powerfulness of the queen's figure, her attitude, her poses, her smiles and her inimitable gaze, as well as for the importance of Cecil Beaton as a photographer.

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Rebecca Carroll

'Posing Beauty': Deborah Willis, Photographer And Breast Cancer Survivor, Discusses Her New Exhibit

HuffingtonPost.com | Rebecca Carroll | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Posing Beauty, Deborah Willis Cancer, Hair-Beauty-Beauty, University of Southern California, African American Beauty, Cecil Beaton, James Vanderzee, Deborah Willis Black Beauty, Carrie Mae Weems, New York University, Deborah Willis, Deborah Willis Posing Beauty, Black Voices News

In her remarkable new exhibit at the Fisher Museum of Art at the University of Southern California, photographer and New York University professor Deb...

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PHOTOS: Mick Jagger Pouts His Way To The National Portrait Gallery

Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Photography, Super Heavy, Mick Jagger, The 60s, Dave Stewart, Music, National Portrait Gallery, Hippies, UK Arts, Michael Joseph Gross, Gered Mankowitz, Terry O'neill, The Beatles, A.r. Rahman, Bookshop Gallery, David Wedgbury, Peter Stone, Joss Stone, Michael Cooper, Cecil Beaton, Colin Jones, Rolling Stones, Philip Townsend, Rock and Roll, Damian Marley, Arts News

Colin Jones' 1967 portrait of Sir Mick Jagger, with a confrontational gaze and a military coat à la Sgt. Pepper's, says it all. Jagger and the Rollin...

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Easy Reader: BookExpo America 2011 Offers Plenty

David Finkle | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Queen Esther, The Queen Who Saved Her People, The Koran, Assouline, Romans, Common English Bible, Lego, Carolyn Brown, Calvin Reid, Midpoint Trade Books, The Orchard, Ed Hooper, The Original I Ching, Red's Hot Cowboy, Mark Gaff, Harry Potter, Cecil Beaton, M. Moliero, My Tablet Books, Bookexpo America 2011, The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume 2: 1941-1956, And God Created Burton, Blissology, American Express, New York Review Books, Tom Rubython, Magination Press, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Knoxville KNOX, Publishers Weekly, Jacob Javits Center, Theresa Ware, Marcel Marceau Master Mime, Andy Baggott, For Dummies Series, I Ching, Cambridge University Press, Richard Burton, Booker T. Mattison, Brevario De Isabel La Catolica, The Judges of Secret Court, Bea, David Stacton, Alislam, Tuttle, Snitch, Kar-Ben, Books News
David Finkle

Book lovers, here's a full disclosure about reporter/bookist me and BookExpo America 2011 at New York City's Jacob Javits Center: I go for the giveaways.

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Homo-Harlem: Learning How to be Gay from Movies

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, James Baldwin, Alain-Leroy-Locke, Carol Brice, Kenneth Mcpherson, Homo Harlem Film Series, The Motion of Light in Water, State Senator Bill Perkins, Henry Van Dyke, Wesley Tann, Nora Holt, Earle Hyman, Jimmy Daniels, Museum of the City of New York, Richard Bruce Nugent, Bricktop, Willard Winter, Gerrie Major, George Platt Lynes, Cecil Beaton, Walter Nicks, Langston Hughes, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Samuel R. Delany, Oaks Bluff, Paul Meers, David Willson, Althea Gibson, Edward Perry, Adelaide Hall, Countee Cullen, Inter State Tattler, Philip Johnson, Dr. Godfrey Nurse, Duncan Grant, Billy Dee Williams, Nella Larsen, Times Square, Tallulah Bankhead, Sex in the City, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Dorothy West, Johnathan Brice, J. Fredrick Lohman, Elsa Maxwell, Billy Strayhorn, Wallace Thurman, Charles Leslie, Truman Capote, Tom of Findland, Archie Savage, Marlon Brando, New York Amsterdam News, Carl Van Vechten, Maysles Cinema, Arthur Mitchell, Alvin Ailey, Martha's Vineyard, Jimmy Donahue, Clifton-Webb, Agustus Granville Dill, Monty Wooley, Cole Porter, Cary Grant, Joey Coleman, William Waefieldgeorge Platt Lynes, John Leapheart, Christopher Isherwood, Impact News
Michael Henry Adams

Yesterday, I saw the season's gay hit move of the summer, Sex in the City II, which has received such bad reviews, but my friends and I quite enjoyed ...

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Some Great New Books!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cole Porter, English Country Houses, Random House, Harvard, Yale, CoCo Chanel, Sergei Diaghilev, Newport, Country-Life, Dunbarton Oaks, Cecil Beaton, Santa Barbra, Janet Gaynor, Boston, Princton, Victorian Estates, Rockrfellers, Abstraction, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Les Ballets Russes, Sir Edwin Lutyens, New York, Beatrice Farrand, Edith Wharton, Homosexuality, Italien Villas, Gertrude Jeckyll, Pablo Picasso, Bliss, Carl Van Vechten, A'liea Walker, Susanne Tucker, Adrian, Books News
Michael Henry Adams

If one is known to be a lover of fine books, one of the best times of the year is quite near. Thanks to this short list of selections from Random House's Monacelli Press, we can happily enjoy some of life's finer pleasures.

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Meet the Black Elite!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Akron Ohio, Champagne, Tennessee Williams, Gregory Generet, Fashion Week, High-Society, Norma Darden, New York, Meritocracy, Breakfast at Tiffany's, N Boutique, Audrey Hepburn, Mojo, Reggie Van Lee, Tracy Reese, Style, B. Michael, Party, Evidence Dance Company, Cicely Tyson, Cecil Beaton, Fashion, East River, Ludget Delcy, Studio Museum in Harlem, Reginald Canal, Black Elite, Michelle Paterson, Obamas, White House, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

That the charity of New York's best events is secondary, even insignificant, in contrast to the stylishness of those in attendance, is a 'dirty secret' that's routinely denied.

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